2009-2010

Issues

Workers comp. and immigration

Vance sponsored a bill that would prohibit illegal immigrants from being able to college workers' compensation. He told the state Judiciary committee that the idea for House Bill 71 comes from his experience with the workers’ compensation issue when he was on the Legislature’s Economic Interim Advisory Committee that examined the costs of the program.

“We are the best of something apparently because we have the highest workers’ compensation rates in the country,” he said.